338 Quotes About Intellectual

The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

If we are not prepared to spell out clearly the content of our thinking or to ‘name’ undisputedly the quality of the cold hard facts, we deserve to be disentitled, intellectually. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )

We all are nothing but Intellectual prostitutes

You can think before you do, you can think while you do and you can think after you've done something. If you can think - it often does not matter. Intelligence is impressive but hidden in the bush is useless. What matters is where it leads and what is produced by it.

No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed under your bed – because, for starters, I’m not banning literature per se. I’m banning the reading of literature. Purchasing and collecting books and other forms of literature remains perfectly legitimate as long as you don’t peruse the literature at hand.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

Most books are useful only in initiating, or maintaining, the rewarding habit of reading.